LekhoriLekhoriAt a slant.
The Shaft that slightly was impress’d, Now from his heavy Fall with weight increas’d, Drove through his Neck, aslant,
Diagonally over or across.
There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
From Middle English aslant (“at an angle, in a curve; from the side, deviously”), from on slante; equivalent to a- + slant.
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